MODERN HISTORY

Critical knowledge of historical events shaping the early modern western world.

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No preconditions required

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I. Overview on History of Early Modern World (15th-19th centuries)

II. Further study of some historiographical questions by reading some essays to be chosen.

I. Erasmus Overview on History of Early Modern World (15th-19th centuries)

1) M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 (2nd ed., Cambridge History of Europe). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (see also History of Europe on britannica.com).

II. Erasmus Further study of some historiographical questions by reading some essays to be chosen.

1) P. Militello, Fluid Frontiers in the History of the Idea of Europe by Federico Chabod (1961), in Frontiers, Migrations, Anchorages, edited by P. Militello e M. Nucifora, Palermo, New Digital Frontiers, 2017.

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The development of the Modern State between the 15th and 16th Centuries. The discovery and conquest of the New World. The religious division of Europe in the Early modern age. The Lutheran and Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation. The Wars of religion. Europe and the rest of the world between the 16th and 17th centuries. The development of the Modern State in the 17th century. The English Revolutions of the 17th century. Europe and the rest of the world in the 18th century. Enlightenment and reforms. The Atlantic Revolutions in the second half of the 18th century. Europe and the rest of the world during the Napoleonic era.